CULTURE ‘The Earth seen from the sky’, or around the world from the Bambouseraie with Yann Arthus-Bertrand

The sapphire mines of Madagascar, the great Mosque of Aleppo, the coral reef of Australian beaches, a car scrapyard in Saint-Brieuc, the Dutch tulip fields or even a line of glacier… All side by side and in the middle of century-old bamboos. This is the picture painted by the exhibition ‘The Earth seen from the sky’, proposed by the Bambouseraie, in concert with the photographer and his historical godfather Yann Arthus-Bertrand.

This selection of around a hundred photos, on around fifty double-sided panels, is inspired by the eponymous and best-selling book published in 1999.

A work that spans four decades, for “bear witness to the state of the world and explore it in more depth than what the surface of the image shows“. Initially, it’s “the search for beauty” who guided the photographer. Then it was “the impact of man“sur la planète:”I became an activist, landscapes interest me less today than people. We are living in a time of great ecological and social upheaval, all the photographs selected are not ‘still lifes’ because they show life”assumes the one who celebrated his 80th birthday two months ago.

This exhibition is then a means of “share and continue with you this dialogue with the world, question yourself about the stories behind these images“That’s why the legends are.”long informative and educational“. Beauty and difficulties of this world overlap, between, for example, majestic landscapes and bombings in Iraq in 2018.

But also difficult living conditions, particularly in Kenya, are the scene of many photos as the country of the beginnings of the photographer, who cut his teeth in the Masaï Mara national reserve. The exhibition is on display until November 15, 2026, just after the old farm.